A piece of cake might’ve been the obvious choice for my blog’s birthday, but given my passion for figs, this Oat Bar turned out to be a more appropriate celebratory snack.

There’s a lovely seating area outside…

…I chose to use my car/lap instead.

Heaven. Like a Fig Newton married a piece of Coffee Cake. I was covered in crumbs by the time I got home.

Already knew what was for dinner – the leftovers I made for Abe on Sunday.

You may wonder what he eats on evenings while I’m devouring my melons as meals? Weird stuff like this. I turn into a mad scientist and experiment on him.

The sauce was made of Korean Red Pepper Paste, Kimlan Soy Paste, and Chocolate/Raspberry PB Crave. RAAAAANDOM. Plus rice wine vinegar and salty/starchy cooking water from the pasta. All tossed together with brussels sprouts that had been roasted in the toaster oven with garlic oil, dill, garlic/onion salt.

And as if this dish wasn’t already completely bonkers, I added fake bacon for crunch.

Was really bummed I missed out on my blog birthday brunch and wanted to still do something special to commemorate the occasion. So Abe and I got in the car and drove to Point Dume.